That's correct, the road is filled with behaviors like you mentioned.

And those things were all there to deal with during this stunt. Except this idiot had to deal with those things using half the reaction time, four times the kinetic energy, a car full of bootleg gas tanks, and no sleep for more than 24 hours.

If you can't see what's wrong with that, you're not qualified to drive on public roads yourself.

Yeah, the word "data" is plural and "impact" is not a synonym for "affect".

When you insist that the vast majority of a language's speakers are speaking wrongly, you're just spitting into the wind. I've even given up on "begging the question". I used it "correctly" myself, but it's far past the point where only morons use it to mean "brings up the question".

I was impressed, but then I realised I had mis-read MPH as MPG...that *would* be impressive.

I had a quick try on ubuntu, but it failed a dependency on libupnp3...I found some discussion on it, but it involved compiling it from source....can't be arsed, sorry.

This is more of an attack against Apple giving away the iWork package for free. MS is barely a blip on the radar.

It's been considered a fairly useful capability since it was on Symbian...how long ago was it on that platform?? Too long ago to remember. This is nothing new apart from it's Google and Android, and perhaps the pervasiveness of the platform.

Ah, I see it was 2005 and Google discontinued it for Symbian :

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/flow/item/18412_Quickoffice_officially_discont.php

I find this sentence in Wikipedia interesting/disappointing :

"The programs are compatible with Microsoft Office file format, but not the OpenDocument standard."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickoffice

I'd suggest starting here as a beginning: 9 - Migrating to OpenBSD
One thing I find OpenBSD is head and shoulders above other *nix OSs at: the documentation. Virtually every service, binary, config, library, /etc/*, what-have-you has a thorough manpage included. The emphasis on security and "correctness" shows everywhere: pf is fantastic (iptables is a cancer by comparison), the built-in IPSec is great, it's OpenSSH's "home OS", etc.

Everything fits very well together (as is also the case with FreeBSD and NetBSD). All the OpenBSD users could post replies to your question but the only way to see for yourself is to try it out.

Enjoy!

Rather than slagging OpenBSD, set up a small VM and try it there for a while. It's a fantastic OS, I use it on my gateway/firewall/VPN, other edge-facing devices and a llaptop.

It's a bit minimal but what you get works.

Can you stick to just one narrative? You stated in this JE that they didn't get useful help (even though Washington would have been unlikely to provide any in time). Now you're back to your old fact-free narrative. Which one do you want to hang President Lawnchair over?

That said, do you have reason to believe that the current narrative is not factual? Can you show a reason to believe that they knew the original narrative to be false when they told it? I showed you the actual timeline before; they only went for the "video" narrative for about two weeks and then promptly changed over. Are you trying to claim that they had something to gain by doing this? After all, this administration profits rather tidily from the "global war on terror" as well; calling it a terrorist act from the beginning would have quite likely benefited them.

HR-36 is still in the house. It hasn't received a vote yet in the conservative-dominated chamber. President Lawnchair has not had an opportunity to do anything with it as a bill so far. Blaming this on him is like blaming him for gravity when a hammer falls on your toe.

Why do you love to bring up Benghazi but hate to actually discuss it in a factual manner?

Standard size of shipping containers are 20ft and 40ft, yes, imperial feet, not meters.

Is there a need to stick to metric system no matter what ?

How many cubits is that?

It was wrong then, it's wrong now. It's always been wrong. Care to try again?

Just because others aspire to evil doesn't make it legitimate that we do so as well. That's not an excuse, that's sophistry. We are supposed to be BETTER than the Russians and the Chinese. We aren't supposed to cry like children that they had their hands in the cookie jar too, so it's OK if we did. No, that doesn't make it alright. We set ourselves apart. What is the USA? It's this: we hamstring ourselves, we restrain ourselves, we limit ourselves, in the restrictions and surveillance of our citizens AND THIS MAKES US FREE. THIS MAKES US OUT-COMPETE THE TYRANTS. The hawks have forgotten this. The hawks have forgotten that it is the step back from tyranny which gives you the room to breath the air of freedom; and it is the air of freedom which births prosperity.

Chase security, chase anti-terrorism, chase information awareness, but all you'll get is the opposite of what you're pursuing.

I said *in front of* the 18 wheeler. You can't see around a big truck. This idiot also averaged 100 mph. that means that he had to move far faster than that for a large fraction of the time.

The highways are filled with trucks, even in the boondocks and at odd hours. That means he had to pass countless trucks while going at speeds like 130 mph, not 100.

For Christ sake, I can't believe the replies I'm getting from people who try to justify this idiotic behavior. The amount of ignorance and stupidity out there is just mind boggling.

The NSA collect meta data. You can't deny this. They collect it indiscriminately. They just suck it all up, for everyone, all the time. This is now confirmed, right from the horse's mouth, the head of the NSA. This is unreasonable, thus a violation of the 4th Amendment. If you think it is reasonable, then you and I can't have a meaningful conversation with each other. We'll just have to stop here. You fundamentally accept a bigger and more onerous government than I do.

Put up or shut up. Show me something he blew the whistle on that wasn't wrong. He took documents over the course of months, selecting only the damning and illegal activity, and then in an abundance of caution gave them to journalists, and only journalists, who have so far done an honorable and commendable job disclosing only material which details the crimes of the NSA without putting any individual person in danger.